Futuresonus Parva: 8 Voice 3 Oscillator Analog Polysynth - MINT

Selling this Futuresonus Parva 8 Voice Polysynth. I'm moving and need to part with some gear, but I am honestly a little hesitant to sell this because it is a seriously amazing synthesizer in a tiny little package. It is absolutely feature packed with 3 oscillators per voice, multimide filters, 4 envelopes, 4 LFOs, a comprehensive mod matrix, etc. They are rare so you don't see them often. It is in excellent condition and works as new. Includes original PSU. It will be packed securely and shipped quickly. I have included many photos to show a detailed depiction of the unit's condition. Please see my feedback and buy with confidence.

From Midera: the Futuresonus Parva is a 1 to 8 voice polyphonic synthesizer that started its life as a kickstarter campaign. Each voice is made up of 3 DCO oscillators (saw, triangle, or PWM) fed through 2 serially connected filters, which can be 12db or 24db LP or HP or 12db bandpass. Oscillator 3 can be used for filter FM – and it sounds glorious. There are 4 ADSR envelopes (that can be looped and their envelope shape modified between linear and exponential), 4 LFOs, and up to 40 routable destinations in the mod matrix. Aside from this, there are individual voice outputs, stereo mix, headphones. Five OLED displays for the information. USB host capability. The Parva can also be used in single or multi mode, allowing each voice to be its own synth. What’s particularly interesting is that all voices are made using individual voice cards (fully discrete?) which makes it easy for voices to sound slightly different from each other. Thus, the Parva sounds less like the DCO synths from the 1980’s and more like a VCO synthesizer from 2020. But how does it sound? I think it sounds like heavy whipping cream.

The sound of Heavy Whipping Cream… What?

Yeah, I don’t know why I wrote that. How do you translate sound from a synthesizer to texture/flavor of food? I guess in some ways, our senses are all intertwined. Kind of like how most of what we ‘taste’ from food is actually the smell portion (plugging your nose, or if you have a bad nasal infection, your food won’t taste at all as enjoyable). Maybe those two things are different. Anyway: I am not backing down. The Futuresonus Parva sounds like heavy whipping cream… or maybe it sounds like heavy whipping cream put into a blender with ice and sugar. So… Ice cream? Yeah. I think that’s more accurate but I’m not going to go back and edit any of that.

What a crazy sounding synthesizer. When I first heard it (last year), I was really surprised by how it sounded. I think where I was struck most was by how musical the filters were. They just saturate so pleasantly, which is where my brain gets this whole cream thing going on. It’s possible the imagery of the actual synth (white) makes me think of vanilla ice cream. That’s totally possible.

Those filters are gorgeous. Nothing else I have (and I have quite a few synths) really touches it. The filters sing when saturated with overloaded oscillators. I think if there’s a synth that gets close to it, it would be the Moog Matriarch, although that’s a paraphonic synth.